Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

Google shows you something different from it shows me, even if we search for the same thing. Facebook filters out what it thinks I may not want to see. And, apparently, these two companies are only the beginning of information gate keeping and siloing online. In my own push-back against self-created barricades, I stumbled across [...]

Lots and lots of stuff in various categories. It looks like Kaplan put almost their entire list of test prep books on there – SAT, LSAT, MCAT, GRE, science, history and more. Plus, lots of business books, health books and just bunches of stuff. If nonfiction is your cup of tea, I would head on [...]

Anthologize lets you make a book or publication from selected posts on your WordPress blog. Their tagline is “Your Blog. Bound.” And that’s pretty much what it is. It’s too early for me to think of spiffy ways of explaining what it does, but here is part of their press release. How the product came [...]

I don’t *cook* cook, but I do love collecting recipes for maybe one day, just in case, as if. Remember you don’t need to own a Kindle to read these. You can download the free Kindle PC or smartphone software (bottom menu on the ebook page, left-hand side.) Anyway, I thought these offerings were pretty [...]

I have no idea how Amazon goes about choosing which ebooks to make free at any particular time, but from the looks of it they have those little critters on each shoulder whispering in their ear. One day they’ll release a whole bunch of books about werewolves and vampire, blood, gore, death, murder and so [...]

I’ve started on some stories of when I was young – the problem being, as usual, that too many come at one time. I’ve sort of figured out how to handle that with yWriter, but I don’t want to get all hung up on tools again and wind up not doing what I need to [...]

“Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it’s the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.” John Waters via A Peek Into My Chaos

Thank the deities it is not just me. I hated that book. Not even half the stuff that is in this article occurred to me, but I wrote last year about picking up Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” from the library and the trouble I was having getting through it. I am a very fast reader [...]

I love this: BBC – Anglesey writer, 82, lands three-book deal An 82-year-old teacher and theatre director has been given a three-book deal after writing her first novel. The Great Lie, the start of Myrrha Stanford-Smith’s trilogy, is a fictional look at William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe’s rivalry. The Brighton-born grandmother from Anglesey said she [...]

I’m not to the (U.S.) Civil War period yet in my research, but I’ve been reading Ta-Nehisi Coates and his journeys, both through books and through the land itself, researching that period of time. Fascinating stuff, especially his impressions and of course all the comments which add to his original post. Anyway, finally he has [...]